Saturday 24 November 2012

What things I don't like in Windows - part 1

 This is just a little story about what happened to me today, not a technical debate on Linux vs Windows.

Today I had to run a program that needed to read and load a .bin file from a path. In the configuration file, I have specified a simple path C:\x.bin. I have copied the image at the specified path and tried to run the program. The message was that the file x.bin was not there. I have re-installed the program, restarted my computer and still, I had the same problem.
 
Sick of trying to run this program, I booted up Linux Mint(the OS that I usually use). I was navigating through the files and by mistake I saw that in C: I had a file named x.bin.zip . I rebooted my computer in Windows , unzipped the archive, and tried to run the program that required x.bin . Still, I had an error. Looking up carefully, I saw that x.bin was a folder and inside it was the real x.bin file. When I've tried to copy the file x.bin out of that folder I've got the error that the file that I try to copy had the same name with the folder. I solved that by moving the folder in D: and copy the file back in C:.
 
I don't like that, by default, Windows hides known file extensions. Usually, when I work in Linux and I need to do something, I work in the console. And there, when I try to see the files in a folder, I use the command ls or ls -lh. All the extensions are obvious, and also, I can see if it's a file or a folder.
In conclusion, I prefer using Linux Mint. When I need to run windows programs, I try to run them in Wine or to run them in a Virtual Machine with Windows instead of running Windows OS.

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